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lift has 51 distinct synonyms spread across 22 of its 36 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
take off or away by decreasing
“lift the pressure”
take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
take (root crops) out of the ground
“lift potatoes”
call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
“The floor is lifting slowly”
remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
“lift the tulip bulbs”
remove from a surface
“the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table”
the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for lift come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
“some actresses have more than one face lift”
transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
a ride in a car
“he gave me a lift home”